Most people try to balance elegant caskets with an affordable price tag. Many beautiful selections cost under $2,000. However, sometimes you want that extra bling to honor your loved one. And that’s where gold caskets shine. Whether your family has a strict budget or unlimited money, you’ll feel pleased with these gold casket selections.
The Best Gold Caskets To Honor Your Loved One
Many celebrities choose burial in gold caskets. Gold symbolizes wealth, fame, and success, so burial in a gold casket shows the world your riches. However, although most caskets are bronze with gold overlays, these are still expensive burial containers. Fortunately for most of us, lower-cost options with gold-colored accents provide a more affordable gold casket option.
Note: I’ll use the terms casket and coffin interchangeably since they are the same for most people. There are differences, however, which you can read about here.
Titan Orion – Rose Gold Casket
Look no further than Titan’s Orion Rose Gold Casket for an elegant pink and rose gold color combination. At $1,199, this choice is beautiful and affordable. This steel casket is Titan’s most popular model. You’ll appreciate the color choices that allow for customization.
Orion Rose Gold comes with a crepe sunburst pattern on the interior headpiece. However customize the casket further by selecting one of these embroidered choices:
- Crepe sunburst
- Father
- Mother
- Flag At Rest
- Going Home (with flying doves)
- Praying Hands
- Praying Hands and Window
- In God’s Care (with three crosses)
Titan Orion – White Casket With Gold Trim
Continuing the Orion Series is an elegant white casket with gold trim. With simple, yet ornate styling this casket is perfect for your beautiful grandmother. I can honestly picture my perfectly coifed grandmother in this white and gold casket. It speaks to her elegant simplicity, which makes me smile.
With a low-cost price of $1,199 this casket is affordable and classic. Top it with a spray of red roses for a stunning tribute to your loved one.
Titan Angel Reflections – White And Gold Casket
Spend a little more money to purchase Titan’s Angel Reflections white and gold casket. It is thoughtfully designed to show your loved one’s Christian faith. You’ll find highly-detailed faith-based scenery in a subtle wrap-around reflective gold element. Scenes such as the Lord’s Supper coordinate with decorative Angels on each of the corners.
This steel casket has a white and gold high gloss painted finish exterior and a pristine white crepe interior. The Titan Angel Reflections is a beautiful coffin that elegantly showcases your loved one’s spirituality.
As with the Orion, feel free to customize this white and gold casket with your choice of embroidered head panels. At $1,699 Angel Reflections offers a stylish gold casket at an affordable cost.
Titan Reflections – Black And Gold Casket
Another casket in the Reflections line is Titan’s Black and Gold Casket. At $1,499, you’ll have a beautiful casket with a wrap-around reflective panel. The image below shows the black and gold exterior option. However, you can choose from 15 exterior colors to personalize this casket to your loved one’s style.
This memorable steel casket comes complete with a high gloss finish and seashell embellishments around the handrail. I can’t imagine a nicer casket for someone who loves a little bling with an oceanside nod. This black and gold casket fits the bill for an elegant option to honor the deceased.
Batesville – Promethean Solid Bronze With Golden Handles Casket
The Batesville Casket Company creates some of the most exquisite and expensive caskets available. And some very famous individuals choose them for burial. For example, musicians Michael Jackson, James Brown, and Aretha Franklin were each buried in Batesville’s Z94 Promethean Casket.
You won’t find this casket listed on Batesville’s public website, as it is only available through funeral homes. However, several discount casket websites carry the Promethean at prices ranging from $29,999 to $59,500. Now that’s a significant investment!
Even though it looks like solid gold, these caskets are constructed with 48-ounce polished bronze. In addition, the Promethean Casket has 14-karat gold plating on all the hardware.
Each Promethean takes more than a week to construct. About 150 hours go into construction and polishing this gold casket. The polish shines to a mirror finish, and the interior is lined with luxurious velvet.
Titan Majesty Gold – Promethean-style Casket
Titan offers an affordable option to the Promethean Casket with its Majesty Gold casket. This all-gold stainless steel beauty is built for the kings and queens among us. Titan designed the Majesty Gold Series as the industry’s most fully featured and most luxurious steel casket.
This Promethean-style casket construction comes from stainless steel, the most robust and corrosive-resistant steel. The interior continues to please with its high-end tufted-velvet head panel, lining, and throw. You’ll appreciate how soft it is to the touch.
The swing bar handles lift up and away from the casket, which makes carrying the casket a breeze for the pallbearers. This touch of luxury allows for easy transport. In addition, the casket bed’s head and foot end adjust for just the right fit.
Celebrate your loved one in style with the Majesty Gold casket at a much more reasonable cost than the Promethean. At $2,499, this luxury casket is affordable for the average family.
14k and 24k Gold Caskets
Are Gold Caskets Made Of Solid Gold?
Gold caskets are not usually made of solid gold! Instead, gold caskets are constructed similarly to Batesville’s Promethean Caskets. They start with a solid bronze casket polished to a mirror finish. Then gold plating is added to the hardware for a luxurious appearance.
What Do Gold Caskets Cost?
The Batesville Promethean Casket uses 14 karat gold hardware plating and, as you read above, costs between $30,000 – $60,000. The price difference likely reflects optional upgrades on the base gold coffin.
Another contender in the high-end casket business is Golden Casket. It offers a 24-karat gilded casket, which the company says takes hundreds of hours of craftsmanship. This beauty starts at $35,000.
If you were to find a manufacturer for a solid gold 14-karat casket, the price would likely cost nearly half a million dollars. The final cost depends on the gold volume required and the selected hardware.
How Heavy Are Gold Caskets?
Gold caskets weigh around 300 pounds before adding the weight of an average adult person. So eight pallbearers might be required instead of the six who usually do the job. An alternative is to roll the casket on a trolley to help with the weight load.
Why Are Caskets So Expensive?
First, it’s important to remember that the amount you have available to spend on a casket does not reflect how much you loved the person. So often, funeral purchases stem from a place of guilt in wanting to “show” our love for the deceased. And frankly, it is okay just to let that go.
There is the idea out there that caskets are so expensive when in reality, you’ll find a wide range of affordable and stylish caskets. In addition, you can customize a lower-cost casket to reflect your loved one’s personality without spending a considerable fortune.
Several factors affect the cost of caskets, however.
- Construction materials: Cloth-covered pressed plywood caskets are the lowest-cost alternative. And softer woods have a lower price than hardwood caskets. In addition, many steel caskets are very affordable.
- Branding: Companies like Batesville have name recognition, which adds to their price structure. Online brands like Titan may not be as well known or popular and thus have lower prices.
- Decorative Hardware: More intricately designed hardware equals more time needed for design and construction. So, for example, these caskets have a higher associated cost than a simple pine box.
- Sealed Vs. Unsealed: Not all caskets are airtight. The ones with a rubber seal to keep out insects and nature’s elements demand a slightly higher cost than those without it.
Most Expensive Caskets
Gold caskets like Batesville’s Promethean and Golden Casket’s 24-karat option are some of the most expensive caskets in the world. Starting prices around $25,000, each of these caskets can end with a much higher final price.
Both companies offer customization and personalization to each customer’s specific desires. And obviously, each upgrade raises the price of the casket.
Conclusion: Gold Caskets
Whether you have $1,200 or $120,000 to spend on a casket, remember that the casket price does not equal your amount of love. Famous people enjoy splurging on 14-karat gold caskets when money is no object. But for most of us, choosing a lower-cost yet still-elegant casket honors our loved one.
Gold caskets or gold-painted caskets each offer beautiful salutes for a wonderful send-off. However, shared memories of a well-lived life have more bearing on what we remember about a person’s funeral than the color of the casket.
